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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!nntp.hybrid.com!usenet From: Kenneth Coley <coley@hybrid.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Raw disk copying. Date: 7 Nov 1995 00:30:27 GMT Organization: Hybrid Networks Lines: 22 Message-ID: <47m9b3$h1p@dracula.hybrid.com> References: <47m969$h1p@dracula.hybrid.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dax.hybrid.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Riddle me this, Riddle me that, I thought that the "D" slice of a hard drive is supposed to be the entire hard drive. "C" seems to be the entire freebsd slice. When I copy a drive using: dd if=/dev/wd0d of=/dev/wd1d bs=1024k It does not seem to copy the low level drive partition table or the boot sectors containing the mbr. Why is this so? How can one copy an entire disk including non-freebsd slices. We need to be able to master about 1000 drives with special code on them and we do not want to have to manually load freebsd,dos, and oour special code on each one of them. -- Kenneth Coley Voice: 408-725-3250 Ext 843 Senior Systems Engineer Fax: 408-725-2439 Hybrid Networks, Inc. Email: coley@hybrid.com